RE: PH Carpool: Vauxhall VXR8 Bathurst S

[tommy vercetti]

Great article, and a great car too. Love it, has a sense of drama around it.

[A2Z]

A very good friend of mine has an "S". He took me round Oulton Park in it on a track day. It was just savage. The noise is just excellent.

[roadwolf]

Why didn't the original owner just buy the Bathurst demo car? surely would have been cheaper.

[pSyCoSiS]

That's a mental car!

Not quite my cup of tea, but fully appreciate and respect it's power.

As far as 4 door super-saloons go, it's a cracker, and I doubt that ANYTHING would be able to keep up with it...

[don logan]

I drove a supercharged VXR8 (auto) last year and was amazed by the accuracey of the steering, the size of it and the build quality.

(and the weird shaped handbrake with the release button on TOP of it)

[Mike Gill]

What a hero! Too true on the wish I'd done that front, we've all blown money on a car that logically and financially didn't make sense but it's all about the experience along the way. Kind of prefer it without the spoiler actually. Good lad.

[Caractacus]

StefanVXR8 said:

As a fellow VXR8 owner I can totally agree with Gary's enthusiasm for the car, they are very special and a car you really have to have a go in to see and feel the appeal!

I've sat in Gary's and had a nose around it and the amount of work he has put in to it is truly unbelievable!

Simply amazing cars!

Mine in all it's blackness................



Stef

Hi Stef

Cast your mind back three years or so...was it you over Tweseldown chasing a dark blue Astra (swmbo company car) that 'let' you past on Sandy lane in Hants? We just wanted to hear the noise!

Mind you, we dropped you in the last tight twistie

Cheers,

C.

[predding]

roadwolf said:

Why didn't the original owner just buy the Bathurst demo car? surely would have been cheaper.

Good question - was thinking the same thing...

I like the black one - esp the spoiler

[anything fast]

Nice car, well done for being different and not buying something German and Uber boring..

[Aeroresh]

predding said:

roadwolf said:

Why didn't the original owner just buy the Bathurst demo car? surely would have been cheaper.

Good question - was thinking the same thing...

No idea why but WP stripped it and the car sold on through Network Q as an "ex management" /demo bogo white VXR8.

Wonder if the current owner knows its history?!

[Gary H 2008]

Because they didn't make the Bathurst in Silver!

[Benjaminbopper]

What a great outlook on life and car ownership. I can only wish you happy motoring and that one day you'll overtake me in a tunnel!

[Dave Hedgehog]

fully of auzzie goodness

i would rebadge it holden

[405dogvan]

Gary H 2008 said:

Because they didn't make the Bathurst in Silver!

It would have been cheaper to respray a car than it would to transplant it's mechanicals into another one.

If you ask around, you'll not find many people who - should they fancy a chance of colour for their car - buy another and swap the hardware over

[sealtt]

It's such a god-awful ugly brute of a car it's fantastic... this thing was just made to floor it past you on a dusty highway disappearing into the outback with an awesome V8 howl filling the air.

[GingerNinja]

"It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black."

[Gorbyrev]

Great story behind a fascinating car. Have to love those small block Chevies. Pushrod pigiron they might appear to us but they are so tuneable and bombproof (ref Jay Leno's latest vid on his Chevy Deuce Hotrod, 600hp no problem, and no more thirsty than an RX8). Proper practical muscle car madness. Good on you Gary, best Carpool for ages.

[Strawman]

GingerNinja said:

"It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black."

Brake calipers?

[gofasterrosssco]

And they ain't iron (pig or other), alloy block..

[GingerNinja]

Strawman said:

Brake calipers?

You've obv not seen Spinal Tap then.

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